Description: "Smith paints a fascinating portrait of the rapidly changing world of Anglo-American SF of the 1950s through the 1980s, and of the significant role that Brunner played as a kind of bridge between SF traditions."-- Locus Magazine "Smith's exhaustively researched book puts Brunner's many novels into conversation with his public lectures, interviews, private letters, and political activism, as well as with longstanding fan debates about the essence of sf. The result casts new--and, at times, quite tragic--light on the complicated legacy of this important figure in the history of the genre. . . . Smith's study ably demonstrates the possibilities of biographically infused criticism of an author's entire career for sf scholars whose research practices--often because of publishing constraints--have tended to focus rather narrowly on small sets of texts."-- Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts

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